Socialism 2026

Maria Rincon

9:00am CDT

Historic Bike Tour: Chicago Race Riot 1919 Commemoration Project

2:30pm CDT

The Threat of Geoengineering and the Socialist Response TBAT Callahan • Ashwin Shantha • TBD • Science for the People Sing, Struggle, Organize: Movement Songs, Political Education, and Collective Power TBASteff Reed From a Marxist Feminist Point of View: Freedom, Rationality and Human Nature TBANancy Holmstrom • Phil Gasper • Alex Holmstrom-Smith • Rose Lenehan

4:30pm CDT

Why Does Capitalism Suck and Why Does it Fail? An Introduction to Marxist Economics TBACharlie Post Transformative Rural Organizing TBABo Belotti • Jake Krug • Vida Rangel Political Education 1: What Are We Up Against? TBAGeo Maher • Chris Rogers • Ant Smith • B-REAL • Center for Political Education • W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School

6:00pm CDT

Welcome Happy Hour

7:30pm CDT

Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Palestine, Internationalism, Abolition TBAAngela Y. Davis • Naomi Murakawa

9:30pm CDT

Radical game night!

10:00am CDT

Building the Anti-War Movement: Identifying and Organizing Against U.S. Military Subcontractors TBAMatt Fiorillo • Joseph Gumina • Julia Mente • Valerie Wallach • BDS Pittsburgh Political Education 2: Understanding Dialectics TBASamer Araabi • Thomas Mariadason • Chika Okoye • B-REAL • Center for Political Education • W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School

12:00pm CDT

Socialist Fiscal Strategy for the 21st Century: Dispatches from New York City’s New Era TBAElizabeth Cooper • Ciarán Finlayson • Zainab Firdausi